BTW, I haven't posted a screen shot of where I write Scripting News in quite some time. Nothing has changed, but a whole other writing enviroment, targeted at WordPress instead of Old School, and it has a different feature set, look and feel.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Remembering Jesus Ornelas
Today we honored the passing of Jesus Ornelas, the father of my friend Rene, whom I’ve known for 28 years now. At the service outpouring of love expressed in words, music, and presence was so powerful. Alongside his biological sons, I said a few words, which are as follows. My memories of Mr. Ornelas begin … Continue reading Remembering Jesus Ornelas →
Continuing to experiment with video. Here’s a short one from this morning, working at Lazarus while it was raining.
I had a fantastic meeting today with Jonathan Desrosiers. I gave him a tour of all the software that makes up WordLand and FeedLand. It was the first time I had done that with anyone from the WordPress community. It started off with a simple story about how I knew I was on the right track when Matt announced they were porting Tumblr to run on top of WordPress as an OS. Which is exactly what I'm doing with my collection of software. Every bit of writing should be a WordPress post, and they should be linked together in arbitrary graphs. It was nice to do that with a serious developer, Jonathan is one of the lead developers of the open source WordPress. It helped me see all the different things we can do, and now hope we will do. I feel I understand this community, as a time-traveler from the past I think I understand what we should do next (and I have done it heh).
When I switched to the iPhone Pro Max, I gave up my iPad Mini, thinking the larger iPhone is good enough most of the time, and I’ve got the Kindle for reading. With AI-assisted coding, maybe the iPad has a new role… Jotting down ideas or firing off coding tasks to run from anywhere without a Mac.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
The Zurich protocol
They came for the newsroom. It was ready.
Meandering feature commits
Most features I work on are fairly small. I like to roll out improvements all the time, whenever they’re ready, rather than hold features for a big release. And I get nervous if there are Git branches sitting there, drifting away from the production code.
Sometimes there rea...
There should be a German word for the slightly smug warm feeling you get from using an obscure HTML element like `dfn` in your most recent blog post, like wot I did. Elementenrichtigkeitsgefühl
There should be a German word for the slightly smug warm feeling you get from using an obscure HTML element like dfn in your most recent blog post, like wot I did.
Elementenrichtigkeitsgefühl
Another Micro.blog tool from @timapple, this one is for blogging from the command line. The year of micro apps.
Pretty significant bundle of apps in Apple Creator Studio. I’ve been using an old license of Final Cut Pro to edit my short videos recently, even though it’s overkill. Probably will keep doing that for now, don’t really need a new subscription.
RAMO
Stop me if this sounds familiar to you…
There’s a conference you heard about it. It sounded really good but you never got ’round to getting a ticket. You were too busy thinking about work stuff. It was just one of those things that remained in the idle thought stage.
Then ...
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Bari Weiss Is The Symptom
"The truth is that prestige journalism is lousy with Bari Weisses, up and down the line. Ask any journalist trying to cover the genocide in Gaza or the social death of gender nonconformists."
The best film I saw in the cinema in 2025 was definitely…
The best film I saw in the cinema in 2025 was definitely…
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
How You Read My Content
A week ago, after chatting with Kev about his own findings, I created a similar survey (which is still open if you want to answer it) to collect a second set of data because why the heck not.
Kev’s data showed that 84.5% of responses picked RSS, Fediverse was second at 7.6%,...
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Shorter Speech
One of the great WordPress blogs is Quote Investigator. In their investigation into the original source of “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter,” I came across this great variation from Woodrow Wilson on the amount of time he spent preparing speeches. “That depends on the length of the speech,” … Continue reading Shorter Speech →
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
At least the sunset was nice.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
How to know if that job will crush your soul
"But these questions are framed in this way to encourage us all to aspire towards roles that enable us to do our best work, to have the biggest impact, and to live according to our values."
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
Golden Globes: Nominees for Best Typewriter in a Movie or Television Series?
♫ Change by Tears for Fears
I wasn’t blown away by Marty Supreme, but it has given me a new found appreciation of Tears for Fears.